This week: Halloween in Sweden, Swedish media coverage of the Tidö government’s migration crackdown, our favourite Swedish children’s books, efforts to form Sweden’s next government, and a language quiz.
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Brenda and Marcus Ramström, a couple in western Sweden who spoke to The Local just days before she was forced to return to her native Brazil following a Migration Court ruling.
This week: First month post-election ends with no government, breakthrough on ending teen deportations, a plan to help citizenship applicants hit retroactively by the new law, and a reminder of some of the best things about living in Sweden.
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with AI consultant Anna Bärlund, who won an appeal last week against her Swedish citizenship rejection.
This week: Tortuous efforts to form a government, plans to stop teen deportations, how new rules on family reunification could make life harder for university researchers, and what do The Local’s readers miss most when living in Sweden?
This week: Magdalena Andersson throws in the towel (for now), Brexit and the Migration Agency, Sweden's cake-baking speaker and how Sweden puts high school kids to work.
This week: Joy for Liberals as support swells, Sweden Democrats and Left Party hit by scandals, immigration in focus in TV debate, billionaires duel over which side to back, and poor school results throw a spanner in the works.
This week: Right closing the gap on Sweden's left-wing opposition, party pledges explained, and could an extremist in Örebro get into the Riksdag? Oh, and fermented herring season is upon us.
This week: Sweden in shock after school sword attack, Sweden Democrats say no to tactical voting, Migration Agency weighs in on Brexit deportations, and what do foreign parents find strange about Swedish schools?
Crayfish parties are often family affairs where generations unite in a shared love of crustaceans, but one year The Local’s Paul O’Mahony peeled away some layers and uncovered another side of Sweden.
This week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Luisa Fernandez and Gustav Magnusson, a couple facing an uncertain future in Sweden after Luisa's application for permanent residency was rejected.
